Intelligent Machines (Audio)

The 21st Century began with the rise of the Internet and social media. The next decade will mark the rise of the Intelligent Machines. AI will inhabit all our devices from cars and appliances to smart phones and robots. The Intelligent Machines podcast explores the most exciting revolution humanity has ever seen, filled with promise and peril. More than ever we need to understand what these new devices will bring to our lives and how to make best use of them as the 21st century unfolds. On this show you'll meet the AI pioneers, inventors, and innovators who are about to disrupt every aspect of modern life. You'll learn what's real and what's hype, and you'll come away with a deep understanding of the intelligent future that awaits us all. You can join Club TWiT for $10 per month and get ad-free audio and video feeds for all our shows plus everything else the club offers...or get just this podcast ad-free for $5 per month.New episodes every Wednesday.

Intelligent Machines (Audio) is a technology podcast hosted by TWiT, with 10 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

TWiT hosts Intelligent Machines (Audio), a technology show with 10 episodes published.

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  Episode #884

  IM 884: Cyber Jim - Why Critical Infrastructure Depends on Obsessive Code Reviews

  Aug 19, 20262h 36m

  Veteran software engineer Dan O'Dowd argues that our power grid's outdated, insecure code puts millions at risk, detailing why regulators, industry giants, and Silicon Valley's "move fast and break things" attitude have left critical infrastructure vulnerable to collapse. Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5 billion in second quarter (272) Dario Amodei on X: "1/2 Thanks Gavin for an especially thoughtful exchange. I don't usually spend much time on social media but I wanted to engage here because it really brings out the heart of an important conversation. First, on regulation, I think that "either concentrate it in the hands of a" / X If the Markets Reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US Should Nationalize Them Inside Big Tech's Frantic Race to Quell the Growing Backlash to AI Anthropic says its AI agents are killing rivals and hiding their tracks Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI OpenAI Introduces 'ChatGPT for Teens' as Safety Concerns Grow Young adults are losing faith in AI's upside So How Is AI Drug Discovery Doing, Really? LG's humanoid robot arrives in 2027, running Nvidia's Isaac GR00T New Chinese model adds to AI competition What happens to what you share with AI Google just bought a bunch of Spirit Airlines data for AI training Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei's Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ the wikipedia guessing game Okay Spielberg TikTok At Beijing's AI-themed bar, DeepSeek tokens buy you beer SXSW Launching Podcast Festival In 2027 Hosts: Leo Laporte , Jeff Jarvis , and Paris Martineau Guest: Dan O'Dowd Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines . Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: horizon3.ai/intelligent

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  Episode #883

  IM 883: Gates-Gate - AI Model Watermarks

  Aug 12, 20262h 35m

  Can a single journalist armed with $30 in AI tools outpace traditional newsrooms and reinvent local reporting? This episode spotlights the DIY ingenuity shaking up journalism from the ground up. How Claude marks AI-generated content Zuckerberg: The Future is for Everyone Introducing Muse Glimmer: An Open Agentic Model That Runs on Your Device Tim O'Reilly's analysis: Google's Westinghouse Bet OpenAI's New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost Over $300 Nvidia, Wall Street Firms Strike AI Financing Deal Targeting $500 Billion High-Schoolers in Denmark Will Make Oral Defenses on Assignments To Curb AI Cheating Anthropic Strikes $9 Billion Cloud Deal With Bitcoin Riot Platforms US appeals court allows Perplexity's AI shopping agent back on Amazon Google debuts SL2T, an AI model that's designed to understand sign language Phoebe Gates Knew Phia Shopping App Took Credit for Sales It Didn't Drive Wired: Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News "* David Corn: I Asked AI to Write a Novel. It's Not So Bad." Yea or Nay BMW Owners Angry 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Ads Are Suddenly in Their Cars: "F*** This" Hosts: Leo Laporte , Jeff Jarvis , and Paris Martineau Guest: Nicholas De Leon Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines . Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: monarch.com with code IM helixsleep.com/machines

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  Episode #882

  IM 882: AI Rubberz? - From Fart Apps to AI Agents The Journey of a Tech Rulemaker

  Aug 3, 20262h 30m

  Meet the insider who wrote the App Store's rules and now battles AI's wildest frontier: protecting identities from deepfake abuse and digital piracy. Discover why the fight for online authenticity just got a whole lot messier. OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok OpenAI's Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies Altman says he supports AI regulation Exclusive: OpenAI Previews 'Astra' AI Model in DC White House to Host AI Companies on Tuesday to Review AI Framework Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science The Math Superstar Who's Terrified of AI—and Just Took a Job at OpenAI Google Earth's AI makeover survives one trip around the Sun As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop? The Red-Hot Book at the Center of an AI Mystery A record-breaking eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this year The Autonomous Press - Numbered Papers Musk's latest ridiculous prediction: Optimus better than human surgeons in 4 years The Archive of Incorrect AI Predictions Hosts: Leo Laporte , Jeff Jarvis , and Paris Martineau Guest: Phillip Shoemaker Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines . Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: rippling.ai/machines

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  Episode #881

  IM 881: Curtains for Zoosha? - Why Newsrooms Must Rethink Journalism in the AI Age

  Jul 29, 20262h 9m

  Business Insider founder Henry Blodgett unpacks why the era of news aggregation is finished and why journalists must adapt fast as AI redefines both reporting and analysis. If you care about the future of information, you'll want to hear this. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident Sam Altman says we are in the singularity: 'This is the moment' AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident Senior White House official claims China's K3 model stolen from Anthropic OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands Trump administration to ban new Chinese robots and inverters, protecting U.S. AI Why AI Needs a "Genie Coefficient" Behind the Curtain: The AI titans' biggest private fear The FTC Would Like To Decide Which AI Answers Are Too Woke, And Is Calling That Consumer Protection Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini DeepMind paper says LLMs won't be good at scientific discovery: LLMs can't jump Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, winding down most flagship models An ESP32 based plane radar The Tick That Hunts Down Its Hosts—Including Us prompt-injection resumes The McLuhan Marshalling Machine Hosts: Leo Laporte , Jeff Jarvis , and Paris Martineau Guest: Henry Blodget Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines . Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: rippling.ai/machines

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  Episode #880

  IM 880: The Beans are in the Mail - Can American AI Compete When China Gives It Away?

  Jul 22, 20262h 39m

  An unreleased OpenAI model just broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face using chained attacks, while the companies defending against it had to turn to a nearly unguardrailed Chinese model to fight back. The result? A real-world stress test of guardrails, hype, and global AI competition. Hugging Face breach: OpenAI claims its models were responsible AI just disproved the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture Quoting Sam Altman Top Pentagon official blasts OpenAI's Dean Ball Exclusive: Nvidia's Jensen Huang defends Chinese AI amid Kimi panic Xi Jinping casts himself as leader of new AI world order Data center opponents stage 142 protests across 42 US states NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook Google's Red-Hot Cloud Growth Drives Second-Quarter Revenue Gains Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic Netflix Co-CEO Explains How Gen-AI Was Used in 300 Different Titles: 'We Believe It Is Going to Enhance Their Abilities' Bellwether Lawsuit Against Meta Over Social Media Addiction Is Dropped Google is building a chip with Gemini baked into the silicon Cyclospora all the time Jensen's jacket auctioned. Guess the price " Everyone Gets Lost at the Pitbull Concert" John C. Dvorak dies at age 80 Hosts: Leo Laporte , Jeff Jarvis , and Paris Martineau Guest: Nate B. Jones Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines . Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: rippling.ai/machines zscaler.com/security

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